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Kamakazi chipmunks on the Legacy Trail

By Sue Trollip

It’s is a fact universally known, to chipmunk aficionados, that chipmunks are most active early in the morning and late in the afternoon. This would explain why, when I wake at dawn, (well maybe just after, but it’s early), and hop onto my bicycle and race to work, I am dodging and swaying through the scurry of chipmunks.

Yes, people refer to them as rodents, pests and other unkind things, but when you’re on your bicycle in the woods they are too adorable.

They do have a tendency to run next to you, or into you (no chipmunks were harmed in the research for this blog), so I’m not going to credit them with large brains. But they do seem friendly and I like that on my lonely morning ride along the river bank.

Short and sweet, Sue. Love the sense of your freedom and happiness with life. Wish I could be as enthusiastic about biking to work, but then it’s not for me which makes reading your blog a breath of fresh air.

You’d probably have to cycle along the Umgeni Penny and the experience moght not measure up to Sue’s rural idyll! O’ll wait for Susan to tkust dream on and wait for Susan to pedal the Melbourne hinterland!

This Susan isn’t likely to be pedaling anywhere in Melbourne soon, I’m afraid. I have absolutely no co-ordination on a bicycle, but my legs and feet work quite well when in direct contact with terra firma, so walking is a better option for me.

Those chipmunks look very cute. Rather like the squirrels in Cape Town – don’t you agree, Jac?